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08 Nov 2017 | Wed 12:09
Yaamin Rasheed Murder Suspects at Criminal Court
Yaamin Rasheed Murder Suspects at Criminal Court
Mohamed Sharuhaan
Yameen Rasheed murder case
Four deny murder charges in Yameen Rasheed murder case
 
Police say the murder was premeditated, meticulously planned
 
First degree murder charges raised
 
Four denied murder charges, two say charges unclear

Four of the defendants in the Yameen Rasheed murder case have denied the charges.

Ismail Haisham Rasheed, Hussain Ziyad, Ismail Rasheed, Hassan Shifaz, Mohamed Dhifran and Ahmed Zihan have been charged with first-degree murder while a seventh suspect is charged as an accessory to murder.

Haisham, Zihan, Dhifran and Shifaz denied the charges in Wednesday’s trial. Ismail Rasheed and Hussain Ziyad’s lawyers said that the charges were unclear and did not know what their clients did to murder Yameen.

Wednesday’s hearing was closed off to public, on request of Prosecutor General (PG) Office.

Maldives Police Service (MPS) said that Ismail Rasheed, Haisham and Zihan had actively participated in the murder. MPS also said that Yameen was murder by radicals and the murder was premeditated and meticulously planned.

Yameen Rasheed was found murdered in the stairwell of his residence in the early hours of April 23rd.

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